Yeah, but when I see unnecessary Soviet embellishment like that, I am immediately reminded of the pseudo-hipster dipshits at my college who glorify the Soviet Union and wear ushankas and field coats for no reason other than because it's 'cool'. Very few people who actually lived under Soviet rule long for the 'good old days' of gulags and rationing, and considering most of these kids can't even speak Russian let alone have any Russian ancestry (see: FPSRussia) it's especially grating.

Yeah, but when I see unnecessary Soviet embellishment like that, I am immediately reminded of the pseudo-hipster dipshits at my college who glorify the Soviet Union and wear ushankas and field coats for no reason other than because it's 'cool'. Very few people who actually lived under Soviet rule long for the 'good old days' of gulags and rationing, and considering most of these kids can't even speak Russian let alone have any Russian ancestry (see: FPSRussia) it's especially grating.

afaik Stalin was voted as best Russian of all time, by Russians
not saying he was a good person at all, but I find it interesting

Yeah, but when I see unnecessary Soviet embellishment like that, I am immediately reminded of the pseudo-hipster dipshits at my college who glorify the Soviet Union and wear ushankas and field coats for no reason other than because it's 'cool'. Very few people who actually lived under Soviet rule long for the 'good old days' of gulags and rationing, and considering most of these kids can't even speak Russian let alone have any Russian ancestry (see: FPSRussia) it's especially grating.

I was going to carve a portrait of Lenin and Trotsky into my RPK's buttstock are you saying i shouldn't do this

There was an AP World History teacher at my school who's experienced Communism firsthand. One of her uncles was killed in the Katyn Forest Massacre by the NKVD, and the rest of her family joined the Bielski Otriad and fought the Germans (and Russians, on some occasions) throughout the rest of World War Two. After the war, after Poland joined in the Warsaw Pact, members of her family were hunted and killed by Communist officials for whatever reasons. She later escaped the USSR somehow, I don't quite remember why lolol.

Hmm... I can't exactly put my finger on why she DIDN'T like Communists and Stalin and whatnot. Soviet Russians were great people who were kind and friendly and nice to everybody right? Isn't that why you guys on FPAir like them so much?